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Paul de Jong - IF

Paul de Jong is best known as the co-founder, cellist and resident found-sound savant of the beloved, defunct collage-pop duo the Books. Five years after that band delivered their final album, The Way Out, to much acclaim, de Jong delivers his first solo album.
De Jong’s ability to find the musical in the mundane has always been uncanny — it is part of what made the Books so magical. In de Jong’s world, everything around him is a potential instrument: his mind-bogglingly vast collection of forgotten private press regional folk records, spoken-word oddities of indeterminate origin unearthed in discarded thrift store piles, and various everyday household utensils that we tend to take for granted.
Featuring a handful of friends and family as musical guests, IF steers a course from joyously eccentric folk-pop to humorously inside-out jazz, resulting in a refreshing piece of outsider art.